I've read and reviewed the three separate books collected here, so this is basically just for my own records. The first book got five stars from me, and the following two both got four. Rewarding reads, all of them.

Three books in on Angelou's autobiography, and she's only in her twenties! There are more books to come, lucky for me, but she's certainly packed a lot into her life. Not knowing much, if anything, about that life, these books have been an enormous surprise. I had no idea that she was a ballerina in Porgy and Bess, performing at La Scala, no less. I certainly had no idea that she was a sex worker. Nor did I have any notion of her extremely fascinating mother! Oh well, this is why I read the biographies of famous artists, especially when they're as good as Angelou was. I haven't read any of her poetry yet, but her prose is amazing.